Improvement in tobacco or cigar presses



UNITED STATES PATENT @ENIGE AHENRY SAGE, 0E PEKIN, ILLINOIS.

lMPROVEM-ENT IN TOBACCO 0R CIGAR PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 84,800, datedNovember 28, 1876; application led September 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY SAGE, of the cityof Pekin, in the county of Tazewell and in the State of Illinois, haveinvented an Improvement in Tobacco or Cigar Presses; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which like letters of reference refer to likeparts, and in whichl Figure l represents a perspective view of myimproved tobacco or cigar press; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation, and Fig.3 a plan view.

Like letters in all the figures of the drawings indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to aord a cheaper, simpler, and equallyas effective a press for tobacco and cigar molds as those-on the screwor compound-lever plans; and it consists as follows: A cam having a longarm is pivoted on a pin, and works vertically within a block or cheeksinthe upper part of the platen against a bar or cross-piece connectingthe said cheeks above, and working below against the platen. Thepivot-pin passes through a vertical slot in either cheek, and alsothrough arms on either side of the cam, projecting from a standardrising from the base of the press, also passing, of lcourse, through.the cam at its lower part. The

cheeks work respectively against and are guided by vertical shoulders oneither arm of said standard when operated by the cam, so raising andpressing down the platen.

I construct my press as follows: A represents the press, consisting of astrong standard rising from the back part of the base or table c, andextending over it in two parallels, g g, each having a verticalshoulder, b, about midway, and each pierced at its outer end for a boltor pin, f. B B are parallel cheeks rising from the platen k, eachsliding on its respective shoulders b b of the arms g g and g' g, andinclosing the outer ends of the same. Each cheek is provided with avertical slot, h, for the passage of the extremities of the pin f, whichconfines the platen and its cheeks to avert-ical motion. Connecting thetop of each cheek is the cross-bar e for the abutment of the cam Grepresents the lever of the cam i, the latter being pivoted upon saidpin f between the arms g g.

The operation of this press needs little description, but when the leverG is raised the Vupper part of the cam i, pressing on saidcrossbar c,raises the platen to the proper height, and is forced down by thebearing of the lower face of the cam upon the platen.

The advantages of this style of press are:

First, it is more economical and less costly than the screw-pressesgenerally employed for this purpose, and equally powerful; second,

it is more easily operated, and at one stroke;

third, several of these presses may be used to facilitate the pressingprocess, with small cost tothe tobacco or cigar factor.

What I claim as my invention is- The tobacco or cigar press, consistingof standard A, having arms g g, provided with shoulders b b to receivethe vertically-sliding cheeks B B of the platen k, connected by thecross-bar e,in combination with the ca1n lever Oz', and boltf,constructed substantially as and forthe purpose described. i Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoin g cigar or tobacco press, I havehereunto set my hand this 15th day of August, A. D. 1876.

' HENRY SAGE.

Witnesses: 1

HENRY W. WELLS, GEORGE BEoNIsoN.

